Is there anything I can do to help this get merged?

Trying to close and re-open this PR to force the checks to re-execute

Nope, the musllinux tests still fail here. I'm going to assume it's unrelated to the current PR and merge anyway.

Yeah, at a glance it looks like maybe the latest round of tool upgrades in the musllinux containers has broken the static libffi linkage again, and cibuildwheel recently started forcing musllinux 1.2.

On the plus side, I'm so glad @arigo came up with an easy way to alias the ffi_call stuff so an accidental non-static extension build is clearly broken instead of silently dynamic-linking in the build env, passing tests, then failing in weird ways in the real world. 🎉

IIRC Alpine has a hacky script approximation of ldconfig that doesn't cover all the bases, and getting the setuptools extension builds to uniformly respect pkg-config is ... tricky. Opened #114 to track that issue separately.